A trial of a new integrated cross-field pharmaceutical seminar as a team-based learning

Abstract

We conducted a trial of a new integrated cross-field pharmaceutical seminar, including basic pharmaceutical sciences and clinical pharmaceutical sciences, as team-based learning (TBL) (readiness checks: individual readiness assurance test (iRAT), team readiness assurance test (tRAT), and feedback) for the senior college students at Kobe Pharmaceutical University. We made 6 test interplicinary questions for the readiness assurance test. On the trial day, the students signed up for iRAT, tRAT with scratch cards, feedback, questionnaires, and peer reviews online. Analysis of test scores demonstrated that tRAT scores for each question and each team correlated with their average iRAT marks. However, peer reviews did not correlate with their own self reviews. After questionnaire totaling, 86%, 100%, and 95% of the students answered that the trial was useful for finding relationships between the subjects, tRAT was valuable for deepening their understandings, and they hope to participate in such TBL seminars as college seniors, respectively. These findings suggest that an integrated cross-field pharmaceutical seminar as TBL for college seniors can be carried out and is worth holding at pharmaceutical universities.